Frequency step-tuning characteristics of traveling-wave tube regenerative oscillators

IEEE Transactions on Electron Devices

Volumn 57, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 1152-1159

  Gao, Peng ^a   Booske, John H ^b   Yang, Zhonghai ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ELECTRONIC SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY OF CHINA   (China)

^b University of Wisconsin Madison   (United States)

Author keywords

Beam voltage; Folded waveguide (FWG); Helix; Regenerative feedback oscillator; Step tuning; Terahertz (THz); Traveling wave tube (TWT)

Indexed keywords

BEAM VOLTAGE; FEEDBACK OSCILLATORS; FOLDED WAVEGUIDES; HELIX; TERAHERTZ;

MICROFABRICATION; MICROWAVE TUBES; OSCILLATORS (ELECTRONIC); OSCILLATORS (MECHANICAL); TRAVELING WAVE TUBES; TUBES (COMPONENTS); TUNING; WAVEGUIDES;

TERAHERTZ WAVES;

EID: 77951620242     PISSN: 00189383     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TED.2010.2043178     Document Type: Article

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